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Rats AI / Level 5 mission
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pyyKtas
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2016-04-14 06:37:08 UTC
Hi,

Just wanted to check whether this is normal behaviour of rats in missions. I tried to run a few level 5's on test server and here's something that seems rather...silly.

I warp in, take full aggro and as soon as you launch squadrons (Light fighters) the same second half of the room looses aggro on you and targets your squadrons. And I mean it is instantly as soon as squadrons appear on grid (Idle, not even aggressing any npcs) rats target them. I tried this quite a few times launch/return squadrons it is the same every single time. Once they are out, at least half of npc that are aggressed on you and attacking switch to squadrons. By the time you kill 1 elite frigate (either with light fights or superiority fighters) you will be down several yourself.

This is not a post about afk ratting in drone boats and I have no problem with micro managing drones/fighters but this is just plain ridiculous.

If this is intended anything except sentries in ratting stand no chance.

Anyone else noticed this and maybe someone can confirm if it works as intended?
Irisviel von Einzbern
Chaos arbiter
Fraternity.
#2 - 2016-04-14 11:23:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Irisviel von Einzbern
Have you ever tried some electronic warfare such as an ecm burst to attract aggro?
I thought that would work before...have not tried it in SISI...
pyyKtas
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2016-04-14 11:46:09 UTC
Not yet, but I will give it a try... As soon as they seed some t1 fighters on the market since all died during testing.

Anyways, it is still very weired that they get insta aggroed instantly upong deploying.
pyyKtas
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2016-04-14 13:17:36 UTC
and just to add, I was using target painters (two of them actually) but that did not seem to do anything regarding aggro
Miss 'Assassination' Cayman
CK-0FF
Intergalactic Space Hobos
#5 - 2016-04-14 23:26:07 UTC
pyyKtas wrote:
and just to add, I was using target painters (two of them actually) but that did not seem to do anything regarding aggro

Target painters are already useless for aggro. The rats seem to only really care about ECM.
pyyKtas
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2016-04-15 04:41:12 UTC
ECM did not do much either. I had ecm burst running all the time and the story is pretty much the same, as soon as squadrons are launched frigs/cruisers immediatly target and aggro them.